Verse Luke 3:10. _WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN?_] The preaching of the Baptist had been accompanied with an uncommon effusion of that Spirit which convinces of sin, righteousness, and judgment. The people w...
WHAT SHALL WE DO, THEN? - John had told them to bring forth fruits appropriate to repentance, or to lead a life which showed that their repentance was genuine. They very properly, therefore, asked how...
II. THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS MINISTRY -- CHAPTER 3-4:13 CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Ministry of John the Baptist. (Luke 3:1 .)_ 2. His Testimony to Christ and his Imprisonment. (Luke 3:15 .) 3. The Baptism of...
JOHN THE BAPTIST. Mark 1:1 *, Matthew 3:1 *. also Mark 6:17 *, Matthew 14:3 *. Lk. now (to...
THE COURIER OF THE KING (Luke 3:1-6)...
To the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, John used to say, "You spawn of vipers, who put it into your heads to flee from the coming wrath? Produce fruits to match repentance. Do not begin to...
Answer of the Baptist to the Multitude 10. _What shall we do then_?] Rather, WHAT THEN ARE WE TO DO? Compare the question of the multitude to Peter on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:37) and that of the...
ANSWER OF THE BAPTIST TO THE MULTITUDE...
10, 12, 14. ΠΟΙΉΣΩΜΕΝ is better supported than ποιήσομεν. Gr[70] La[71] Ti[72] [70] Gr. Griesbach. [71] La. Lachmann. [72] Ti. Tischendorf. 10. ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΠΟΙΉΣΩΜΕΝ; ‘What then are we to do?’ (Delibera...
Ver 10. And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? 11. He answered and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise...
ΈΠΗΡΟΔΤΩΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΕΡΩΤΆΩ (G1905) задавать вопросы, расспрашивать. Предложное сочетание указывает на направление к специфическому предмету. Inch, _impf._, "они начали спрашивать" ΠΟΙΉΣΩ...
DISCOURSE: 1482 PRACTICAL DUTIES ENFORCED Luke 3:10. And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath...
DISCOURSE: 1481 LIBERALITY TO THE POOR Luke 3:10. _And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath n...
WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN?— Ποιησομεν, the same word as that used in Luke 3:8 and rendered _bring forth;_ and consequently it should be translated in the same manner, to make the propriety of the reply mo...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Ministry of John the Baptist Scripture_ Luke 3:1-20 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetra...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Baptizer's Message (Luke 3:7-14) 7 He said therefore to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath...
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region o...
19 Compare Mat_14:3-5; Mar_6:17-18. 19 Herod's treatment of John is here inserted ahead of time to close the account of John's ministry before opening that of his Master's. 21-22 Compare Mat_3:13-17...
JOHN'S MINISTRY. BAPTISM AND GENEALOGY OF JESUS 1-14.. Preliminary Ministry of the Baptist (Matthew 3:1; Mark 1:1). See on Mt....
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 THE WORK OF JOHN THE *BAPTIST 3:1-22 V1 The *emperor Tiberius had ruled in that part of the world for 15 years. Pontius Pilate was governing Judea....
AND THE PEOPLE ASKED HIM... — The questions that follow are peculiar to St. Luke. They are interesting as showing that the work of the Baptist was not that of a mere preacher of repentance. Confession...
CHAPTER 6 THE VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS. WHEN the Old Testament closed, prophecy had thrown upon the screen of the future the shadows of two persons, cast in heavenly light. Sketched in outline rather...
ἐπηρώτων, imperfect. Such questions would be frequent, naturally suggested by the general exhortations to repentance. The preacher would probably give special illustrative counsels without being asked...
_Class counsels_, peculiar to Lk. Two samples of John's counsels to classes are here given, prefaced by a counsel applicable to all classes. The classes selected to illustrate the Baptist's social pre...
A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Luke 3:1-14 The evangelist sets an emperor, a governor, two high priests, and three tetrarchs in a few lines, as of very subordinate interest, compared with the one man,...
Luke marks with great care the time of the ministry of John, employing an emperor, a governor, three tetrarchs, and two high priests to do it. By means of these names a picture of the world at the tim...
GENUINE FRUITS OF REPENTANCE Luke 3:10-14. _“The multitudes continued to ask him, saying, What then shall we do? Responding, he says to them: Let the one having two coats. give to him having none; and...
THE ABRAHAMIC PATERNITY Matthew 3:8-10, and Luke 3:8-10. O the withering denunciations which leaped from the eloquent lips of John, like lightning from the skirts of the clouds! “Ye generations of vip...
GENEALOGIES Matthew 1 and Luke 3. There is but one fact of vital importance in all of these genealogies, and that is the transmission to all generations, an infallible history of our Lord's progenitor...
FIRST NARRATIVE: THE MINISTRY OF JOHN THE BAPTIST, LUKE 3:1-20. We already know from Luke 1:77 why the Messiah was to have a forerunner. A mistaken notion of salvation had taken possession of Israel....
SECOND PART: THE ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH, LUKE 3:1 TO LUKE 4:13. For eighteen years Jesus lived unknown in the seclusion of Nazareth. His fellow townsmen, recalling this period of His life, designate Hi...
3. VERS. 7-17. The following discourse must not be regarded as a particular specimen of the preaching, the substance of which Luke has transmitted to us. It is a summary of all the discourses of John...
. But what then, the people ask, are those fruits of repentance which should accompany baptism? And, seized with the fear of judgment, different classes of hearers approach John to obtain from him spe...
(3) And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; (4) As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice...
The preface of Luke's gospel is as instructive as the introduction of either of the two preceding gospels. It is obvious to any serious reader that we enter a totally different province, though all be...
_‘WHAT SHALL WE DO?’_ ‘And the people asked Him, saying, What shall we do then?’ Luke 3:10 The final stage of religion is duty. Everything else, however comforting, however holy, however true, is o...
Luke 3:10_And the multitudes asked him. _A true feeling of repentance produces in the mind of the poor sinner an eager desire to know what is the will or command of God. John’s reply explains, in a fe...
In chapter 3 we find the exercise of the ministry of the word towards Israel, and that for the introduction of the Lord into this world. It is not the promises to Israel and the privileges secured to...
AND THE PEOPLE ASKED HIM,.... Not the same as in Luke 3:7 the Sadducees and Pharisees, for they seemed not to be at all affected with, and wrought upon, by the ministry of John; but rather were disple...
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then? Ver. 10. _What shall we do?_] _q.d._ What are those fruits worthy of repentance, that we in our places must bring forth? That we may find in o...
_And the people asked him, What shall we do then?_ To avoid the judgments of God. _He answereth, He that hath two coats_, &c. Be careful, not only to observe the ceremonies of religion, but to attend...
WHAT SHALL WE DO? that is, in order to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance. Verse Luke 3:8. He enjoins upon each class of his hearers repentance, and the fruits of repentance appropriate to their...
Individual counsel to the people:...
AND THE PEOPLE ASKED HIM, SAYING, WHAT SHALL WE DO THEN?...
A VOICE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS (vs.1-20) The first two verses of this chapter establish the precise time of the appearance of John the Baptist in his ministry, so that the reality of it cannot be d...
1-14 The scope and design of John's ministry were, to bring the people from their sins, and to their Saviour. He came preaching, not a sect, or party, but a profession; the sign or ceremony was washi...
Ver. 10,11. Although the preaching of the law doth not immediately conduce to work in us faith in Christ, yet mediately it doth, as it brings men to cry out, as those ACTS 2:37, _Men and brethren, wha...
Luke 3:10 So G2532 people G3793 asked G1905 (G5707) him G846 saying G3004 (G5723) What G5101 do...
JOHN IS APPROACHED BY JEWS, BY THE OUTCASTS AND BY SOLDIERS (3:10-14). ‘And the crowds asked him, saying, “What then must we do?” The crowds were moved and asked what they could do about it. John's r...
THE POWERFUL MINISTRY OF JOHN IS DESCRIBED (3:1-14). Many years have passed and the ministry of John the Baptiser, whose birth was described in chapter 1, begins. It is set very definitely in its hist...
The ministry of John is narrated by all four Evangelists. Peculiar to Luke are: the chronological notice (Luke 3:1), which points out the exact position of the main gospel facts on the wide platform o...
Luke 3:10. WHAT THEN SHALL WE DO? The question of those whose conscience had been aroused. Comp. similar questions, Acts 2:37; Acts 16:30; Acts 22:10. But the answers g
ASKED (επηρωτων). Imperfect tense, repeatedly asked.WHAT THEN MUST WE DO? (τ ουν ποιησωμεν;). Deliberative aorist subjunctive. More exactly,WHAT THEN ARE WE TO DO ,WHAT THEN SHALL WE DO? Same...
Luke 3:10 I. St. John's three answers all go upon the principle of "doing our duty in that state of life unto which it hath pleased God to call us;" but they are the more striking as coming from a per...
Luke 3:10 Duty. The final stage of religion is duty. Everything else, however comforting, however holy, however true, is only its cradle. The maturity of man is his obedience. If I had to define duty...
Luke 3:2 I. How shall we picture John the Baptist to ourselves? Great painters, greater than the world seems likely to see again, have exercised their fancy upon his face, his figure, and his actions....
Luke 3:1. Now in the fifteenth yea of the reign of Tiberias Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the...
CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist. Baptism of Jesus. Genealogy of Mary. CHARACTERS: Holy Spirit, God, John Baptist, Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate, Herod, Philip, Annas, Caiaphas, Zacharias, Ab...
Luke 3:1. _In the fifteenth year of Tiberius Cæsar._ St. Luke begins this chapter in a scientific manner; he speaks as a man of letters, and gives posterity a chronological record. Pontius Pilate had...
10-11. WHAT ARE WE TO DO, THEN? The baptized must be taught; and those who baptized them are required to teach them (Matthew 28:19-20). John's answer gives his moral code - which is more concerned wit...
_What shall we do then?_ COMMON SENSE APPLIED TO EVERYDAY DUTIES I. JOHN DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN THE EASE-HARDENED, SELFISH, AND SCARCELY REACHABLE PHARISEES AND HIGH-PLACED REPRESENTATIVES OF OFFICIA...
JOHN THE BAPTIST PREPARES THE WAY FOR JESUS MATTHEW 3:1-12; MARK 1:2-8; LUKE 3:2-18; MATTHEW 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist,...
CHAPTER 3 VER. 1. _Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 3:1.—This may be regarded as the formal opening of St. Luke’s history. TIBERIUS CÆSAR.—Angus us died A.U.C. 767, and fifteen years added to this would make the time here noted, A...
EXPOSITION LUKE 3:1 THE BAPTISM OF JOHN. LUKE 3:1 NOW IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS CAESAR. St. Luke's Gospel is framed after the model of approved histories. He c
Shall we turn to Luke's gospel chapter 3. As Luke begins the third chapter, he is giving you the date of the beginning of the ministry of John the Baptist, and he uses no less than six historic refere...
Acts 16:30; Acts 2:37; Acts 9:6; Luke 3:8...
Asked [ε π η ρ ω τ ω ν]. Imperfect tense, indicating the frequent repetition of these questions. Coats [χ ι τ ω ν α ς]. See on Matthew 5:40....
JOHN THE FORERUNNER Luke 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. CHRIST'S TESTIMONY TO JOHN Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, "What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with...
He answereth — It is not properly John, but the Holy Ghost, who teaches us in the following answers, how to come ourselves, and how to instruct other penitent sinners to come to Christ, that he may gi...
The Baptist having pressed his hearers to bring forth fruits meet for repentance, here they enquire of him what fruits they should bring forth? He tells first the fruits of charity and mercy: HE THAT...